The Church is the Church only when it exists for others, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFERNeighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ.
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Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
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Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
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Advent creates people, new people.
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Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
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Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
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The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.
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Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.
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We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
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